Welcome to the Lennon-Ritchie Agency
We’re an internationally focused literary and rights agency based in Cape Town, South Africa.
Some of our recent award-winning books include JUNX by Tshidiso Moletsane (winner of the 2022 Sunday Times Fiction Prize); A SIN OF OMISSION by Marguerite Poland (winner of the 2021 Sunday Times Fiction Prize); THE SON OF THE HOUSE by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia (Giller Prize 2021 Shortlisted, Nigeria Prize winner 2021, Sharjah international book prize winner 2019, and SprinNG prize winner 2020); THE THEORY OF FLIGHT by Windham Campbell prize-winning Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu (Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2019); and LACUNA by Fiona Snyckers (winner of the South African Literary Award 2020, winner of the Humanities and Social Sciences award 2020, Sunday Times Fiction Prize 2021 Longlisted).
Find out more about the Agency.
Authors
We represent international writers of literary and commercial fiction, non-fiction, and children’s literature. With a particular focus on underrepresented voices, our authors range from emerging voices to award winners.
Publishing Partners
We sell international, subsidiary, and film/television rights for publishers including Penguin Random House South Africa, Pan Macmillan South Africa, Jonathan Ball Publishing, and Duck Creek Press, New Zealand.
Books
We represent works of literary and commercial fiction across all genres from crime and thriller to speculative epics; non-fiction from narrative to prescriptive; and Kidlit from picture books to middle grade and Young Adult.
Book to Screen
The sale of books for stage and film/TV adaptation is fast becoming an area of expertise for the Lennon-Ritchie Agency. If you’re a producer looking for titles to adapt, email us here for a list of available titles.
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